Shipping charges

UK Standard Shipping (Usually 1st class Royal Mail)

Order value up to £10.00 Shipping £1.75 Order value up to £100.00 Shipping £3.25 Order value over £100.00 Shipping is FREE†.†Order value over £150.00 Shipping is FREE (for orders including LiPO, LiFEPO4 and Lead Acid Batteries)

Guaranteed Next Day delivery.

£8.45 by APC 24. Delivery is guaranteed* for the next business day (Mon-Fri) * Mainland UK only. Northern Ireland, Highlands & Islands are charged at between £11.95 & £15.95, delivery aim is 2-3 days

Royal Mail Special Delivery

This is guaranteed for delivery by 1pm the next working day (including Saturday). Orders up to 1kg in weightare charged at £8.95, up to 2kg is £10.95. Note: Orders over 2kg can be sent by Royal Mail Special Delivery, but the price from Royal Mail for this weight is very expensive, we recommend that you use the APC 24 hour service instead.

Royal Mail has recently changed the rules on what they will & will not allow to be posted. This has a serious effect for us as many of our products now fall into categories classed as "prohibited" or "restricted" by Royal Mail. Details of these restrictions are as follows:

Sealed Lead-acid batteries:

Royal Mail will still carry these as long as there is no more than one battery in any package & the weight of that battery must be no more than 1.5kg. This applies to UK domestic mail only, this type of battery is now prohibited from airmail post.

Lithium batteries (Lipo, LiFe, lithium ion etc):

Royal Mail will not carry these batteries to either UK or international destinations. Although Royal Mail rules allow for lithium batteries to be sent with the equipment, in practice these rules are ignored & packages containing equipment with batteries are intercepted by Royal Mail & are destroyed.

Quick Overview

Recommended minimum bend radius 30mm

Details

Perfect to get little points of light into difficult places & for creating tiny light effects. The actual light source can be hidden some distance away, then simply use the fibre to channel the light to where it is wanted. This fibre is made from a specialised, durable plastic material, so it can be cut to the required length with a sharp craft knife, then simply point one end at the light source & the light comes out of the other. The fibre is flexible & can be bent around to reach its destination, which has no effect on the light transmission (think of it as a hose pipe but for light rather than water) Multiple fibres can be clustered around a single light source, to take light around a model.

This is sold by the metre - cut from the roll, so if you buy 3 metres you will receive a single piece 3 metres long, NOT 3 one metre packs!

The best light sources to use are high brightness LEDs due to the high light output from a tiny source also the fact that they run cold & so do not effect the material that the fibre is made from.

Tips:

To get the best light output make sure that the ends of the fibre are cut cleanly & square.To get points of light along the length of the fibre, simply nick it with a file, the deeper the cut, the more light will come out - be careful as this will weaken the fibre.

This fibre is very flexible & will happily bend to a radius of about 20x its diameter i.e. for a 1.0mm fibre it will bent to a radius of 20mm, tighter bends are possible, however the fibre may become permanently bent (not a problem for a permanent installation) although with very tight bends there will be some light lost through the sides of the fibre at the bend. If you need to make a tight bend it is advisable to warm the fibre, which will make it more flexible.

LEDs make ideal light sources. A piece of heatshrink sleeve is ideal to hold the fibre in place at the end of the LED - although you can get away with nothing more sophisticated than a piece of sticky tape!